Cake needs to be able to connect to your database as a user the database trusts. Did you set the username & password in database.php? Note that you don't have to use *your* username and password. You can create application-specific users for that.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:01 PM, psiborg <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been following the instructions in the Blog tutorial, and did > alright...up to the point where I'm creating the database and getting > Cake to connect to it. > > Is there a special place that Cake expects the database to be found? > I'm using XAMPP on a Win XP machine, and CakePHP 1.2.1.8004. > > The tutorial doesn't specify a database creation method, so I used > phpMyAdmin to create the database and add the posts from the tutorial. > > Then, I modified the database.php file, per page 10.1.3, and called up > the localhost. Cake tells me that the tmp directory is writable, the > FileEngine is being used for caching, and that my database > configuration file is present. However, it also tells me that it is > NOT able to connect to the database. > > Obviously, I'm a n00b to all of this (the last thing I had to do with > a database was creating one using MS Access). I'm trying to learn > enough to be able to help someone with his business, and maybe be able > to get a job... > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
